Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Lou Holtz, fully Louis Leo "Lou" Holtz

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Adversity | Greatness | Crisis |

Kahlil Gibran

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

Appearance | Beauty | Greatness | Heart | Impulse | Man | Mind | Past | Thought | Woman | World | Beauty | Thought |

Lewis Mumford

Not wishing to be other than they are, the blameless ones, in their self-love, cannot conceive the real alternative; another self, cleansed of guilt and freed from folly, capable of renewal.

Folly | Guilt | Love | Self | Self-love |

Karen Horney, born Danielsen

It would not be going too far to assert that… conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and hwo is… unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

Daring | Woman |

Karl Rahner

In the last analysis we remain persons who must flee from ourselves and from the dark mystery of our threatening guilt in order to find our true selves in God. Whoever has understood the importance of this flight, this critical distancing of ourselves from ourselves, whoever has understood this knows that it comes about only by allowing oneself to be loved by an infinite and all-forgiving love, which is called God, and by believing, hoping and loving in this love.

God | Guilt | Love | Mystery | Order |

Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

Guilt is the only evil; but no guilt accrues when the issue is one against which there are no guarantees.

Evil | Guilt |

Marian Wright Edelman

It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Action | Greatness | Greed | Idealism | Time | Words |

Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

Everything morally right derives from one of four sources: it concerns either full perception or intelligent development of what is true; or the preservation of organized society, where every man is rendered his due and all his obligations are faithfully discharged; or the greatness and strength of a noble, invincible spirit; or order and moderation in everything said and done, whereby there is temperance and self-control.

Control | Greatness | Man | Moderation | Order | Perception | Right | Self | Self-control | Society | Spirit | Strength | Moderation |

Matthew Henry

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.

Care | Fear | Guilt | Riches | Sorrow | Temptation | Temptation |

Matthew Henry

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Care | Fear | Greatness | Guilt | Riches | Sorrow | Temptation |

Martin Buber

Man's great guilt does not lie in the sins he commits, for temptation is great and his strength is limited. Man's great guilt lies in the fact that he can turn away from evil at any moment, and yet he does not.

Evil | Guilt | Man | Strength | Temptation | Temptation |

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Guilt | World |

Oprah Winfrey, born Oprah Gail Winfrey

Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service – to yourself and to others.

Greatness | Power | Service |

Oprah Winfrey, born Oprah Gail Winfrey

Don’t complain about what you don’t have. Use what you’ve got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service – to yourself and to others.

Greatness | Power | Service | Sin |

Philip Massinger

He who knows not guilt knows no fear.

Fear | Guilt |

Plato NULL

Then I must surely be right in saying that we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognize the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

Greatness | Honor | Men | Qualities | Right | Will | Wisdom |

Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes m ore conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

Appearance | Fortune | Good | Greatness | Spirit | Will | World |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Enough | Greatness | Perception | Virtue | Virtue |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

Enough | Greatness | Justice | Need | Perception | Plenty | Poverty | Soul | Virtue | Virtue |